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...breakfasts to his friends, and wines of an evening to large parties. Englishmen coming to this country are much surprised to find that here, as a rule, two students instead of one rent a room and its accompanying bedrooms. Such a system no doubt has its pleasures. With a chum a man who is of social disposition is certain not to be left for any great length of time alone. More visitors are said to come to see two than to see one. Besides, - a most obvious advantage, - the expenses are lessened, so that a man of moderate means with...
...arrangement by which they shall both enjoy the luxury of rooming alone, and yet be at no great distance from each other. As far as entertaining a great number of visitors is concerned, the under-classman may think it an advantage that tells wonderfully in favor of a chum, but a larger experience probably informs him that there are many inconveniences attending such a way of living. Very often, too, it happens that, from no desire of your chum's or your own, company men drop in because your room is a convenient and pleasant loafing-place...
...bedroom, and such an action is an invitation to his friends to leave, he is never sure of a moment in which to study uninterruptedly. At Vassar they are so unmannerly as to do this; it is, in fact, rendered almost unavoidable by the huddling of five young lady chums into one study-room. To the studious, this system of chumming does more injury than the most earnest efforts of the instructors in the lecture-room can repair. Never free from interruption either by your chum or some caller, asked continually to do something foreign to the work that demands...
...Mobilier shares they own. They are one of the drawbacks of student life, but we must submit to them as to so many other extortions. It is with a view to making this submission easy that I offer the following plan. It is the joint production of myself and chum. We thought it carefully out in accordance with the canons of taxation. It is arranged, you will notice, so that
...moral results of this scheme were excellent, but yet the contribution-box was never empty; and I put in the most money, for the provocations to profanity which an ingenious chum can invent are infinite. But although there was always some money in the box, it seemed to me that pretty large amounts disappeared regularly, and I was at a loss to account for them, until I detected my chum in subscribing for the latest scientific work by Cowan, and paying for it out of the charity-fund. I earnestly remonstrated, telling him I thought Mr. B -, the agent...